He was a chestnut stallion with a star and white coronets on his hind feet.
[5] He won the Grand Championship at the Louisville Horse Show at age three.
[6] Bourbon King was the progenitor of the Chief family, one of the most influential bloodlines in Saddlebreds.
[5] His son Edna May's King was the first horse to repeat win the Grand Championship at the Kentucky State Fair.
One of Bourbon King's descendants, Wing Commander, was the first five-gaited horse to win six consecutive World Grand Championships.